CARS

 What would Americans do without their cars?  We love 'em, we hate 'em.  Right now we gotta have 'em.  Maybe someday we wont need them - but not while I'm alive.  Man, I would love to be able to fly an airplane.  

You can laugh at me if you like but I've acquired the exact same kind of car the last four times I've had to deal with a dealer.  Eleven years in a row, all white, Honda CRVs.  I know, "How boring!"   Oh well, I'm just a boring guy.  

The first ever car that I purchased was a red Chevy Corvair, 1963 (I think) purchased in 1965.  Black interior, bucket seats, four on-the-floor.  I loved it.  In a few years, Ralph Nader wrote a book titled "Unsafe At Any Speed:  The Designed-in Dangers of the American Automobile blah blah blah."  In it he told how the Corvair should be taken off the road because it's going to kill anyone who drives it.  That was the end of the cute little Corvair - Chevy stopped making them.  

The Corvair was just one of a large number of small cars the American automobile industry attempted to sell as a fix for high gasoline prices from 1960 thru 1990.  Mostly, they were all junk.  Toyota and Honda came to this country and taught our industry how to make a car.  Our auto industry has never really recovered.  

Here is a list of the small ones that I remember.

Ford Pinto

Chevy Vega

Dodge Dart

Dodge Duster

Chevy Geo Metro

AMC Gremlin

AMC Pacer

Ford Maverick

I hope you never owned one of these.

:)